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Regional Rail

The Regional Rail unit at Metro is responsible for considering the planning, programming, and implementation of commuter rail projects in L.A. County that are or will be operated by other agencies such as Metrolink, Amtrak, and High Speed Rail. The Regional Rail teams continue to advance projects that improve regional rail mobility in the County, including preparing for eventual arrival of High Speed Rail as well as modernizing Union Station to transform it into a World Class transit and mobility hub for all operators.

In March 2016, the Metro Board of Directors unanimously approved a motion to examine the feasibility of relocating three existing Metrolink stations and creating a new Metrolink station at the base of Rio Hondo College. The three existing stations under study are the Northridge, El Monte, and Montebello/Commerce stations.

On September 28, 2017 the Metro Board directed Metro staff to analyze benefits and impacts of potentially removing the Claremont Metrolink station.

Claremont Metrolink Station Study Community Meeting

The City of Claremont hosted a community meeting on December 11, 2017 with representatives from Metro, Metrolink and the Foothill Gold Line Construction Authority. Staff representatives from each agency presented preliminary findings of a study assessing the potential impacts of removing the Claremont Metrolink Station.

Below are links to the City of Claremont's webpages with the presentation and handout from this meeting:

Presentation of findings and recommendations are anticipated at the Metro Planning and Programming Committee at 2pm on January 17, 2018 at Metro Headquarters. Please check the Metro committee schedules and City of Claremont website prior to this date for any potential scheduling changes.

The Brighton to Roxford Double Track Project (Project), proposed by Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro), adds a second main line track to an approximately 11-mile single track transportation corridor in east San Fernando Valley. The Project will be implemented in an active rail corridor within existing rail, public, and station right-of-ways. The corridor runs between Hollywood Way in the City of Burbank and through the cities of Los Angeles and San Fernando, to Roxford Street in Sylmar. This creates over 25 miles of continuous double track rail from Downtown Los Angeles to the San Fernando Valley.

Metro completed the planning and design of this project. This project is currently under construction with Metrolink. Please visit the Metrolink website for any information regarding construction-related updates.

A unique combination of limited access, high traffic counts, adjacent industrial uses, and residential interests make safety and mobility enhancements in this area a priority issue. Both Doran Street and Broadway/Brazil are located on the south side of the State Route 134 (SR-134) and east of the Los Angeles River. Approximately 90 Metrolink, Amtrak and freight trains use this crossings daily. Metro is currently proposing an alternative that includes the Salem/Sperry Overpass, located at Salem Street in the City of Glendale to Sperry Street in the City of Los Angeles, connecting West San Fernando Road to San Fernando Road, and a connector road that extends West San Fernando Road to the Fairmont Avenue bridge.

Eliminates the at-grade intersection of Rancho Vista Boulevard and Sierra Highway by creating a grade separation including raising the profile of Rancho Vista Boulevard over Sierra Highway and the adjacent Metrolink and UPRR tracks

The new Burbank Airport – North Metrolink Station will be located only one mile from the airport terminals north of Hollywood Burbank Airport on the Antelope Valley Line of the Metrolink system. The construction of the new station began March 2017 and will be completed by May 2018. Operations is anticipated to begin by June 2018 or sooner. Once the station is operational, the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority plans to operate a free shuttle bus service linking the terminal to this station.

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) is evaluating the addition of a second mainline track along the Metrolink San Bernardino Line in the cities of San Dimas and La Verne. The proposed 3.9-mile double track segment would be located between Lone Hill Ave and White Ave. The goal of the proposed project is to enhance safety, improve Metrolink service, and upgrade 12 crossings to be “Quiet Zone Ready.”

PTC is an advanced technology train collision/derailment avoidance system which uses predictive enforcement to automatically engage the brakes and stop a train in advance of potential train-to-train collision, train over speed, unauthorized entry, or movement thru a misaligned switch. There is a Federal mandate that an interoperable system be implemented by December 31, 2015. Metrolink has been installing the software and communication systems on its locomotives and along the right-of-way and has been testing PTC since 2014. It will first be implemented along the San Bernardino Line in Spring 2015 and implemented systemwide in mid to late 2015.

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